Union Timeline

  • Haymarket Rio

    In Chicago, protesting police brutally against labor strikes . The hay market affair was the aftermath of a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.
  • Homestead strike

    Also known as the Homestead steel strike, or Homestead massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892.
  • ILGWU

    The international ladies Garment workers union calls a strike in New York, demanding a 20% pay raise and 52 hour workweek. This largely successful is the largest labor action by women in the nation's history.
  • Postwar strike wave

    A wave of strikes breaks out after World War I. More than 40,000 coal workers and 120,000 textile workers walk off the job.
  • Norris LaGuardia Act

    It banned yellow dog contracts, barred the federal courts from issuing injunctions against nonviolent labor disputes, ans created a positive right of noninterference by employers.
  • Fair Labor Standars Act

    The Fair Labor establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and child labor standard affecting full time and part time workers in the private sector and in Federal, state, and local Governments.
  • Post world war II strike wave

    Workers strike to win wage increases in the face of postwar inflation. The wave of strikes is the worst since 1919 and includes general strikes in Hartford, Houston, Oakland and other cities.
  • Taft Hartley Act

    Also known as The labor Management Relations act. Is a United States federal law that restricts the activities ans power of labor unions.also established guidelines to correct unions unfair labor practices.